Senior Engineering Manager, Spotlight Content Quality & Ranking
Snapchat is used by hundreds of millions of people every day to express themselves, keep in touch with their friends, and discover content from the community and publishers. Snap Engineering is a group of kind, smart, and creative engineers building products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.
In the Spring of 2021, we launched Spotlight, a brand new content broadcast product. Since then, Spotlight is becoming the easiest way to discover the world of Snapchat in one place and see the most entertaining content from across our community. For viewers, Spotlight entertains, educates, and inspires. For creators, Spotlight is a stage to perform, inspiring the community with their creativity and showcasing their talent.
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to support the various teams working on Spotlight Content Quality & Ranking. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering the best content to the most relevant people and at the right time. The job is challenging, meaningful, and fun. The role is based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office, with teams located in Seattle, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.
What you'll do:
Own key top-line business metrics including but not limited to Spotlight content quality and product engagement
Oversee day-to-day operations of the various teams working on Spotlight Content Quality & Ranking problems
Develop organizational-level goals, drive the technical and organizational roadmap for the engineering team
Collaborate with Content, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams distributed across multiple offices
Build, grow, and mentor a team of exceptional machine learning engineers, software engineers, and technical leaders.
Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering
Minimum Qualifications:
BS/BA in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience
Minimum 6+ years of experience managing a large team of 30+ engineers and experience with managing managers and cross-functional dependencies
Extensive experience (10+ years) working with applied machine learning problems in the domains of content ranking, computer vision, content understanding, or related fields
Track record of building, growing, and mentoring high performing large teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Track record of building new or hyper-growth ML-driven products impacting hundreds of millions of users
Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments
Preferred experience with feed ranking, search, or advertising
Relevant experience with data science and Internet-scale infrastructure
Have a passion to learn new things, develop people, and make a business impact at a very large scale
At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at [email protected].